Wretched Quotes

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.